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JTTs is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancements in transportation technologies. The goal of this journal is to provide a forum for scientists and academicians worldwide to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and perspectives in diverse areas of transportation technologies, and…
Guoqiang Shen, Jiahui Wang
Mode choice is important in shipping commodities efficiently. This paper develops a binary logit model and a regression model to study the cereal grains movement by truck and rail in the United States using the publically available Freight Analysis Framework…
Torbjørn Årethun, Bharat P. Bhatta
Road accessibility is considered to be one of the major factors influencing (or correlated to) rural households’ access to- and participation in markets. However, there are few studies that investigate this important topic. This paper, therefore, explores the…
Shauna Hallmark, Robert Sperry
Hybrid-electric school buses became available in the US through a national consortium designed to bring hybrid-electric school buses to market by creating enough demand among school districts to encourage manufacturers to invest in development of the technolo…
Kaiyun Wang, Pengfei Liu
Being viewed from the standpoint of whole system, the hunting stability of a heavy-haul railway vehicle on a curved track is investigated in this paper. First, a model to simulate dynamic performance of the heavy-haul vehicle on the elastic track is developed…
Giuseppe Schirripa Spagnolo, Donato Papalillo, Andrea Martocchia, Giuseppe Makary
The aim of this paper is the design of a Solar-Electric Boat for tourists’ transport along the coast, in the rivers, in the lakes. Our idea is to define the project guidelines for the realization of a zero impact boat. This paper illustrates the practical new…
Zdzislaw Trzaska
In this paper we present new numerical simulation approaches for determining the energy processes under periodic conditions caused by time-discontinuous forces in the wheel-rail contacts. The main advantage of the presented method is the total elimination of…
Sadao Kimura, Takashi Kitani, Atsushi Koizumi
The concept of performance-based design, which mainly focuses on mechanical performance, has become the international standard, as in the case for ISO. The standardization of tunnel design has not been achieved because it requires integration of separate spec…
Gui Lohmann, Jakob Trischler
Fast ferry catamarans have been in use for several decades. They possess the advantage of overcoming one of the major deficiencies of water transportation: low speed. Although their operation has spread throughout different parts of the world, an overall anal…
Riccardo Manzini, Arrigo Pareschi
The continuous increase of human mobility combined with a relevant use of private vehicles contributes to increase the ill effects of vehicle externalities on the environment, e.g. high levels of air pollution, toxic emissions, noise pollution, and on the qua…
Giuseppe Schirripa Spagnolo, Donato Papalillo, Andrea Martocchia
In recent years, light emitting diodes (LEDs) have entered the lighting market, offering consumers performance and features exceeding those of traditional lighting technologies. LEDs (light-emitting diodes) are becoming more common in safety signals for railr…
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